Do you want to enhance your gaming experience in Pokémon GO a little? Then possibly two small ticks in the settings are enough if you have overlooked these so far.
What are these settings? Both settings are small things, but they can quickly make a noticeable difference in everyday gameplay when utilized. These settings are called:
- Native Refresh Rate
- Download All Content
In the recently revamped settings menu, you will find both settings under the point Advanced Settings
. Then scroll down to the point Quality
. There you can select both settings.
What they bring, we briefly summarize here.
What do Native Refresh Rate
and Download All Content
do?
Native Refresh Rate: This feature was introduced in an update at the end of 2021, but if you are like me, you might not have noticed it back then. I was recently made aware of this setting and found that it makes the game significantly smoother and nicer.
If you enable the feature, you can achieve a higher frame rate in Pokémon GO. The entire game feels smoother – this extends from the normal wilderness map over the animations while catching to the menus.
However, you should pay attention to whether “Unlocking the Native Refresh Rate” might lead to higher battery consumption or faster heating on your device.
Download All Content: This feature is also useful if you haven’t used it yet. It was introduced in September 2022. When you select it, your game downloads all the data it needs at once and can then access it directly instead of loading it only when you encounter it. This can be useful, especially after larger updates.
Especially when the Adventure Incense was released, some players found that they encountered bright, glowing balls in the wild instead of the new Galar birds. This was a case where the game had to load data afterwards.
The advantage: you not only get faster loading times when you’re on the go, but you also consume less data because less needs to be loaded while you’re out. But important: only use the feature when you are connected to Wi-Fi – otherwise your smartphone will use data from your mobile network. And that can sometimes be quite a lot of data.
What does Update Game Data
do? When you are in the advanced settings, you will also come across the function Update Game Data
under Quality
. According to the menu, it should be used when inconsistencies are noticed while playing.
In fact, this is the setting that Niantic support usually recommends on Twitter when encountering gameplay errors, corrupted data, or similar issues. If you use this function, at least less severe errors should be resolved.
What’s else happening in Pokémon GO? May is about halfway through, but there are many other events coming up this month in Pokémon GO. You can find all events in May for Pokémon GO here.
